![]() ![]() And the other is an over-the-hill catcher hired more to teach Robbins the ropes than for his own skill (Costner.) Costner is wise in baseball and has seen a lot, but he knows he is nearly finished and will in all likelihood be let go at the end of his 1 year contract. One is the hot-shot new pitcher played by Tim Robbins. This particular year, two men catch her eye. The tribal Nymph, it seems, chose an annual lover from her entourage of young men, a king to be sacrificed when the year ended making him a symbol of fertility, rather than the object of her erotic pleasure. Sarandon is a team-groupie who picks one baseball player to bed for the season, and has more knowledge about baseball and player technique in her pinkie than anyone else on the team or their manager. The meat of the matter though, is from the central parable of the story. She may have engaged in ritual sexual congress with the players, but she is still fundamentally *innocent* in this rite. Everyone is happy for her, and as she tries on her wedding dress with Sarandon asks "do you think I deserve to wear white?" "Everyone deserves to wear white." It's a tender, universalist moment out of a cultural superstition about purity. The "young priestess" figure who "sleeps with half the team" goes out with the devoutly Christian player and within 5 hours of talking to him about the Bible, she agrees to marry him. It's also pagan in the sense that the different religions are all possible and don't necessarily exclude the truth of others, and it includes the more pagan side of Christianity. Which is to say, you believe for belief's sake, and that makes it real. You know how hard this game is? If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid or because you're not getting laid or because you wore red silk panties - then you are! ![]() In a moment of serious, explaining why its understandable that a pitcher won't sleep with his girlfriend so long as he's on a winning streak, Costner says:Īnd he's right! A ballplayer on a streak has to respect the streak. One of the repeating tropes is the superstitions of the players, and how they are treated dead seriously no matter how silly they are. It is another plane of existence that the fortunate and brave are ascended to. As this is a minor league team, the major league is talked about only in hushed reverence as "the Show" where someone carries your luggage and all the hotels have room service. The title of the movie - which is the name of the featured team, the Durham Bulls - is a reference to the majestic beast sacrificed in pagan rituals. checks out, anthropologically.Īnd how absurd is it to say that baseball is America's religion? It certainly is considered "the American sport", more than football or basketball even if those have surpassed it monetarily. Fast, and all over the place.") Which would transitively imply that "sex = religion" which. The movie is saying "baseball = religion", and also "baseball = sex" (the latter of which they make MANY jokes throughout the movie. It's a very funny monologue by a great comedienne - but it's also straightly honest as said. ![]()
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